• Roads and Tracks for Historians (UK) - (Book - Amazon.co.uk) : Major features of the landscape, roads and tracks are often ignored by those who use them. Yet they can tell us much about a locality and the social and economic life of the past. The earliest trade routes date back far into pre-history, long before the Romans imposed their military network. This book provides penetrating new insight into our network of ancient, old and new roads and tracks.
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• Signposts to the Past : Place-Names and the History of England - (Book - Amazon.co.uk) : Place-names are important to the historian and the archaeologist. Quite apart from the inherent interest of the original meaning of a place-name, the fact that in England there are six successive layers of language reflected in the stock of place-names means that they provide vital evidence for dating and for estimating the mixture of races in the composition of the nation.
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• Sources for Local Historians (UK) - (Book - Amazon.co.uk) : This new book introduces the reader to the enormous range of documents available for the local and family historian, many of them unknown to all but a few academic historians. The authors convey their own enthusiasm for the material and explain what it contains and the information it can reveal. They concentrate on English and Welsh archives, but also include some discussion of records in Scotland and Ireland.
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• The Local Historian's Encyclopedia (UK) - (Book - Amazon.co.uk) : This Third edition of The Local Historian's Encyclopedia has been completely revised, reset and expanded once more. Divided into themes, this very popular book gives meanings of many terms as well as detailing legislation which affected the lives of everyone. The sections range widely over diverse subjects such as Land and Agriculture, Heraldry, Social Welfare, Coins, Transport, Archaeology and Palaeography.
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• Tithe Surveys for Historians - (Book - Amazon.co.uk) : Tithe Surveys are among the sources most frequently consulted by local historians and geographers, providing detailed information on parish and field boundaries, land use, farming, roads and rural settlements.
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• Village Records (UK) - (Book - Amazon.co.uk) : Dr West's book is unusual in its skilful and seamless combination of `how to do it' advice with a comprehensive work of reference. To illuminate his detailed, practical guidance, the author has used a series of landmark documents relating to one particular village, Chaddesley Corbett in Worcestershire; all of them available for virtually any locality. He then, through up-to-date, county-by-county source lists and bibliographies, makes it easy for the reader to locate and to use similar sources - ranging from Saxon charters and place names to turnpike trust records and commercial directories.
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• Weights, Money and Other Measures Used By Our Ancestors - (Book - Genealogical.com) : Written for researchers who come across unfamiliar units of weights and measurements, this is the ideal companion to keep by your side when perusing wills, inventories, accounts, and old journals. How can we possibly appreciate the ancient manorial system without an understanding of oxgangs and hides? How can we come to grips with early population listings without knowing about virgates and farthingales? We now know, for instance, that a firkin of soap weighs 64 pounds, that a hogshead of claret contains 46 gallons, that a faggot of firewood is 36 inches in length, that a chest of Indian tea weighs 126 pounds, and if that isn't enough you'll also learn that in the year 1650 you could have a tooth extracted for about one shilling! What a book! -

• Living Back-to-Back - (Book - Amazon.co.uk) : Back-to-backs were once the commonest form of housing in England. Built in rows or courts or blocks, the back-to-back was home to the majority of working people in our Victorian cities. There were once half a million of them - vermin-infested slums, damp, overcrowded and disease-ridden, as Giles Worsley graphically describes them - yet they have almost entirely vanished from our urban landscape. Using a mixture of documentary evidence and oral history, Chris Upton uncovers a fascinating corner of our common past and tells the story of the folk who lived in Court 15 in central Birmingham. Such people are all in our family trees, but are all unique - the glass-eye maker from Birmingham, the Jewish watch-maker from Poland, the tailor from St Kitts. What was it like to live in a house with only one bedroom and no running water? How did 11 families share two toilets?
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• Northumbria: History and Identity 547-2000 - (Book - Amazon.co.uk) : This is a book about both the ancient Anglian kingdom of Northumbrian, which stretched from the Humber to the Scottish border, and the ways in which the idea of being a Northumbrian, or a northerner, or someone from the ‘North East’, persisted in the area long after the early English kingdom had fallen. It examines not only the history of the region, but also the successive waves of identity that that history has bestowed over a very long period of time.
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• The Routledge Atlas of British History - (Book - Amazon.co.uk) : The changing story of the British Isles forms the central theme of this fascinating and compelling atlas, which covers England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales - and the expansion and gradual disintegration of Britain's overseas empire. This new edition includes: politics war and conflict religion society and economics.
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• A Handbook of Dates: For Students of British History - (Book - Amazon.co.uk) : A Handbook of Dates is an unrivalled reference book for historians. It provides in clear, user-friendly form, tables which allow the calculation of the dates (and days) on which historical events have fallen or will fall, from AD 500 to 2100. It describes the calendars and other systems used for dating purposes in England from Roman times to the present, including regnal years. Lists of Easter dates, saints' days, popes, rulers of England and the Roman calendar are also given.
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• Directing the Past : Directories and the local historian - (Book - Amazon.co.uk) : Over the years many articles have been published in The Local Historian which either discuss the use of trade and business directories as a source for local history research, or employ them as a source in other case studies or analysis. This book brings together a collection of these articles from the last forty years with a wide-ranging introduction which has been written by Gareth Shaw, Professor of Human Geography at the University of Exeter. -

• Enclosure Records for Historians (UK) - (Book - Amazon.co.uk) : The enclosure of the open fields and wastes took several centuries to complete but changed forever, not just the landscape, but the very way that many things are done in the countryside.
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• House Histories for Beginners (UK) - (Book - Amazon.co.uk) : It is a good time for a beginner to set about finding out about his or her house. Popular television programmes are highlighting the satisfaction that can be gained from investigating the history of houses, and interest in the subject is growing. Archives, too, are becoming ever more accessible under the impetus of the internet. As the subject covers a broad field, the authors have set out to include advice on those aspects that usually apply to a project and others that will be of particular use for beginners. The reader is guided through every stage of research, from the first exploration of the archives to the completion of the project. Suggestions are also included on how to present the findings.
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• The Tribes of Britain - (Book - Amazon.co.uk) : The diverse peoples of Britain and Ireland are revealed not only by physical characteristics but also through structures and settlements, place names and dialects. Using the latest genetic and archaeological research, the author shows how different peoples traded, settled and conquered, establishing the 'tribal' and regional roots still apparent today. Its vast scope considers the impact of prehistoric peoples and Celtic tribes, Romans and Vikings, Saxons and Normans, Jews and Huguenots, as well as the increasing population movements of the last century.
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